Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-05-30

Craft-burV-
Guar Leonard is in Boston buying new
goods.
Gilman Hodgdon has bought the Daniel
Hodgdon place.
f. L. Hastings has bought new piano |
of A. II. Cowles.
Eta Hartman is no better--Willie |
Merrill appears to be getting better.
D.F. Hoyt was hurt last Wednesday |
while leading a COW. causing temporary |
insanity, but is some better.
A. Dawson has started the road machine
with good team and will put the roads
in good order again. He is just the man
for the place.
r. A. Patterson has logs nearly cut out;
Collins & Kinney have theirs all in the
pond and are working on them with a
full set of hands.
DIR. o. A. Bemis was in Montpelier
Wednesday and Thursday of last week,
attending the meeting of Vermont State
Homeopathic Medical Society.
on her house. and will apply coat of
paint, which will improve its looks very
much Mrs n. reports first-class mill
inery trade this season.
East CraftSbury.
Oscar W. Goodrich. who has suffered
with kidney trouble some years has
been at Albany, being treated by DIR.
Campbell and has returned much improv-
ed.
Derby
! Edward Bates and family will arrive
soon to spend the summer in their fine
residence here.
The town superintendent examined
forty-fOur applicants and granted license
to twenty at the recent examination.
| viii Fuller came to town this week
with his wife and child. after an absence
| of five years in the West. He is settled
in Kansas, where he is doing good bus
mess.
The annual conference of the Cong.
churches of the county will be held here
on Nav 3lst and June lst 1t is expected
that the gathering will be large and the
exercises interesting.
Glover.
| here.
Sumner Scott has rented II. S. Chap
Inns farm.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Richardson were
in town the past week.
1t is rumored that DR.. Hill will come
here if DIR. Tempieton moves away.
Samuel Jones of Lisbon, N. H., was
in town last week visiting his parents
residing here.
! Alison Clark has commenced work on
his new barn; j. Dow and Theodore
Wright are doing the job.
Sylvester Critchett has leased the
paint shop of John Mitchell for five
years, and will take possession soon.
John Thorpe's barn was struck by
lightning during the recent storm. 1t
was badly torn to pieces but not burned.
G. w. McGaffey adjourned his auction
sale, advertised last week, until Saturday
June 4th. at l o'clock, when he will sell
in addition to property advertised lot
of haying tools.
The Earnest Workers will hold their
next meeting at the residence of Mrs.
F. c. Clark, next Friday afternoon, June
Sd. As this is the annual meeting, full
attendance is very much desired.
Mary Bliss Webber, wife of Scott
Webber who lived in this town many
years, died in California, Apr. 4th. She
went there some years ago to reside with
her children. Her declining years have
been made happy and peaceful, and in hel
last moments she was permitted to look
across the river" in a vision almost
literal. and to behold land which she
described wonderful in its beauty.
Her last hours were full of the glory
that possessed her soul.
Greensboro
Fishing the last two weeks has beer
fairly good: no big catches have beer
reported.
Dan. TAYLOR, ''tonsorial artist is al
Phillips old harness shop two or three
days in the week.
The new sidewalk so long delayed
has at last been laid on the street lead
ing past the T. P. church.
DIR. w. E. Bailey who has been il
Texas on account of a predisposition tC
consumption, will return to Yer
mont for the summer. He will make
his headquarters at Hyde Park, but viii
visit his friends in Orleans county.
The funeral of E. G. Babbitt was hello
at the family residence last Friday. II
his death the community loses one o
its oldest citizens, and one well known
in the community. His presence will
be missed in the circle of his acquaint
ance.
The prospect of large influx of sum
mer boarders this season is fiattering
Extensive preparations have been, anC
are being made to increase the accom-
modations, and in some cases the in
creased number of rooms have already
been engaged for the season. On th'
whole the boom for Greensboro is OIL
the increase.
= States Attorney Alfred, on complaint
p arraigned Francis Felix before Justic'
, Goss for drunkenness and disorderly
I conduct, and was fined $500 and costs
We are glad we have an Att'ny at las
who is willing to prosecute such often
, ces; he is the first one we remembe
: of who would come to this end of tn
county, unless it was some ''big thing.
: Our fishing season is becoming almos
\ a terror to good citizens, SO many com
here who think drunkenness and rowdy
t ism an essential accompaniment to fish
d ing.
, Holland
A j. Rumery has taken the job 0
: carrying the milk for several parties &c
: the creamery for SIPS per cow for tn
d season.